Sunday, 11 October 2015

Music of the Abstract: Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle

From fun heavy metal to one of
the most legitimately disturbing songs I've ever encountered, so much so I'm
including a warning for any readers of this post to play the video at their own
precaution. Not inherently because anyone who listens to it will be disturbed,
but because after the first sounds I heard hearing it in a CD compilation, it
lifted the hairs on the back of my neck. Throbbing Gristle are one of the most
acclaimed but also most notorious bands to come from Britain, and deciding to
base a song lyrically on a letter documenting a real life female burn victim,
nicknamed the "Hamburger Lady" because of the severity of the burn
injuries, is as unsettling as you can get. Setting this to electronic drones
that, for a 1978 released song, sound like they were composed yesterday, a
monotonous throb offset by various scratching noises, just adds to the horror
of the material.

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I am 28 years old and hail from England. For the last few years I have been a growing fan of cinema and have decided to take the next step into blogging about it and any other tangents that about the things I'm interested in I get onto.